| REPECHAGE | A heat in a rowing competition in which eliminated contestants have another chance to qualify for the next round (9) |
| EIGHT | Type of boat used in rowing competition (5) |
| REGATTA | Rowing competition |
| BUMP | A jolt; a swelling; a sleeping policeman; a knock of a boat in a rowing race; or, a customary throw or lift in the air of a birthday boy or girl (4) |
| TOURNAMENT | A sports competition in which players who win a match continue to play further matches in the competition until one team or player is left |
| LIPSYNCTABLET | Reality show on which contestants have to pretend to sing whatever song comes up on their iPads? |
| LEEWAY | The navigator on board has to make allowance for this sideways drift or movement of a vessel (for th |
| WILDCARD | In sport, an extra opportunity to qualify for a championship competition (4,4) |
| BLOODPRESSURE | The normal range of this measure in humans is less than 140 for the systolic and less than 80 for th |
| OLYMPICS | Carries The Hoops emblem perhaps on its merchandise ? no wonder a lot of people carry a torch for th |
| SCOTLAND | Football nation that beat Serbia in a play-off penalty shoot-out to qualify for Euro 2020 (8) |
| ONEHORSERACE | Competition in which a particular entrant is certain to win (3-5,4) |
| CORACLE | Care to meet the colonel in a rowing boat in Wales? |
| CREWCUT | Three men in a rowing boat, perhaps, showing one way to deal with locks |
| STIRFRY | General description of a dish cooked rapidly over a high heat in a wok, such as pad thai (4-3) |
| RERELEASE | Another chance to see film about soldiers on fields close to Passchendaele (9) |
| AGAIN | "Tonight's another chance to start ___" (lyric from "It's Just Another New Year's Eve") |
| DENMARK | Winners of football's European Championships in 1992, despite failing to qualify for the tournament |
| RORY | In 2009, ____ McLeod was the first black player to qualify for the World Snooker Championship |
| SHOTPUT | This competition in which a 16lb metal ball is thrown has been part of the athletics at the modern O |
